Chapter 2: Returning Home

Two days later, the train entered the station, and looking at the flow of people in caftan shirts, cloth coats, dresses, and cheongsams around him, Hu Rui got off the train with his luggage. He was originally from Shanghai, and it was the first time he set foot in this hometown where he was born and raised, and he had mixed feelings when he looked at the strange and familiar landscape in front of him. I was not in a hurry to go home, I got out of the station, took out a few coppers, bought a stinky tofu, and walked to the Bund that I was once very familiar with. In the early 20th century, although Shanghai Tang was lively, it was far less prosperous and beautiful than that of later generations, and there were no familiar Oriental Pearl TV Towers, no skyscrapers lined up one after another, and most of them were all kinds of sunset national flags waving in the wind. The wooden plank road has been along the river embankment channel in the center of the river, blowing a slightly fishy river breeze and looking at the railing, looking at the river surface to show off their might, hanging their own national flags to shuttle back and forth warships of various countries can not help but feel complicated, a nameless flame rises in the bottom of the heart more and more vigorous. As a post-80s generation, growing up under the red flag and bathing in the spring breeze of reform and opening up, he fell into a honeypot as soon as he was born. I have never suffered hardships, I have never suffered disasters, and I can't accept the content that only appears in textbooks for a while. Put a piece of stinky tofu in his mouth, clutched the paper bag tightly in his hand, looked at the warship on the meeting with bloodshot eyes, and threw the paper bag into the Huangpu River with a fierce fist. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was stupid, the country was weak, the great powers regarded China as fish and meat, and since the Gengzi Incident, exploitation and oppression have become more and more urgent, and the huge China has sunk into a miserable situation of semi-feudal and semi-colonial. Witnessing the decay of the country and the suffering of the people, as a quasi-soldier of later generations, a heavy sense of responsibility spontaneously weighed on his heart, and it was heavy. It seemed that he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and turned around and left without looking back. According to the address on the letter, his home is in the area of Sichuan Road, which should be within the British Concession. waved and stopped a rickshaw, reported the address, and was not in the mood to negotiate the price anymore, so he got on the bus with his luggage. Outside of it, they crossed a square of a position and arrived at the place in a quarter of an hour. Paid and got out of the car, reached out to knock on the door, hesitated and put it down. It seemed to sense that there was someone outside the door, there was a sound of footsteps in the patio, and the black cast iron door was suddenly opened, and an old man with braids and a long robe and horse coat seemed to be a subordinate. Young master, please come in as soon as possible after a hard work, it's cold outside, and there is no warmth, the lord and the lady have been waiting all morning. There was a deep concern in his tone, and he didn't forget to announce it while greeting sideways.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Old Man Hu put down his wine glass and looked at his son who was bowing his head and burying his head in the rice and asked silently: "Son, the telegram you sent in Germany has been received by my father, and my son is worthy of being a person with great ambitions. Our ancestors have accumulated a lot of contacts, and they have walked the rivers and lakes for their father over the years, not to boast that whether it is the six towns of Beiyang under the command of Yuan Xiangcheng or the self-improvement army of Xiangshuai in Hubei, as long as my son has the ambition to be a father, there is a way to help you do it! After saying that, he looked at the "son" in front of him with a smile and waited for him to answer. Hu Rui, who was repairing a yellow croaker, almost choked to death when he heard this, couldn't help but roll his eyes. Oh my God, Dad, you might as well spare me. Didn't you see that the Hubei New Army was about to be infiltrated into a sieve by Sun's alliance? There are revolutionary parties up and down in the entire Eighth Town, whether it is the horse team, the artillery battalion, or the infantry battalion, and there will be an uprising in Wuchang in three years. Not to mention that Feng Guozhang counterattacked Hankou, and how many lives were burned in a fire? Huang Xing, who has a low eye, commanded blindly, how many people died in the Wuhan People's Army's counterattack on the Beiyang Army?! Let's talk about the six towns of Beiyang, that is all the hard work of Lao Yuan, he is close to him, he dies for a long time, and even has an immortal position in the army, and the six towns of Beiyang have long become Lao Yuan's private army. Even the deposed "returning to his hometown to recuperate" still actually controls this army, so as long as Lao Yuan is still in the day, no one can expect to be able to pull away a single soldier from the six towns of Beiyang. After a moment of silence, Hu Rui whispered, "I...... No, the child wants to join the Anhui New Army. As soon as the words came out, the old man immediately changed color, and asked forcibly: "A few days ago, Xiong Chengji of the Anhui New Army committed a rebellion, have you ever heard of it?" "Yes." Hu Rui replied stubbornly. "How ruthless is Zhu Jintian, the newcomer's mansion, whether they participate in it or not, they are all implicated, and the killings are very widespread, and not long ago, the local squire and the family members of the bitter lord jointly wrote a letter to impeach Zhu Jiabao, and now the court is worried about this matter. Why did my son give up the gold and jade and take the broken tiles? The old man asked with an unkind face, with a strong reproach in his tone (in history, the then governor Zhu Jiabao and the patrol battalion co-commander Yu Dahong killed a lot of people, and the people inside and outside Anqing City were implicated a lot, and they fell in love with the patrol battalion at home, and the military discipline was corrupted, and when they later pursued the uprising, Xiong Chengji, they didn't see less bad things. That would be able to mix a half-official position in the new army, and the combination of several aspects finally led to the impeachment of Yushi. "My father's words are wrong, and soon after the new monarch ascended the throne (Guangxu and Cixi died of illness on November 15, 1908), the power of the imperial court fell, and the provinces and localities supported the army and had a great tail. The bane planted during the Xianfeng period is that no matter how the imperial court collects local financial power and military power, it is powerless, and now the foreign powers are around, the revolutionary party is ready to move, and the repeated riots of the new army show the depth of the penetration of the revolutionary party. The child dared to predict that there would be a big change in a few years, when the country would fall into a state of secession, whether the imperial court existed or not. In the troubled times, only by mastering a strong team for my use can we occupy a place. Now the Anhui New Army has been purged, and the revolutionary party hidden in it is all gone, and it is in a vacuum. When the world is in turmoil, you can use this strong team as a yard, no matter the success or failure of both sides, you can win a reputation in the troubled times. With that, he wiped his sweat and took a sip of his teacup. Nima, Wen Zou Zou's literary literature is around labor and capital. Hu Rui peeked at the stunned cheap father, and couldn't help snickering in his heart, I was born more than a hundred years later than you, and I didn't study history in vain in the military academy. The face was extremely calm, and the bottom of his heart had already smiled like a fox. There was silence for a while, and just as Hu Rui was bold enough to go up and pat the cheap dad to see if he was stimulated and went crazy, the old man Hu, who had been crawling on the official road of the mall all his life, sighed and lowered his head helplessly. Hu Rui was ecstatic in his heart, it seems that this is an eyebrow!